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1 " Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs. "
― Chris Murray , The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
2 " People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain "
3 " Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not? "
4 " Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs. "
5 " The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve. "
6 " Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess. "
7 " What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone. "
8 " Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path. "
9 " Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question. "
10 " I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy. "
11 " In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail. "
12 " I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice. "
13 " Finding happiness by delivering it. "
14 " Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen. "
15 " I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me. "
16 " Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare. "
17 " You’ve got to be driven to become successful. "
18 " Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals. "
19 " If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight? "
20 " To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be. "